Drew Bartlett is a senior software engineer and architect with nearly two decades of hands-on experience building scalable web and mobile systems, currently focused on Confluence databases at Atlassian. He has led frontend and full-stack migrations and designed framework-agnostic micro-frontend architectures, shrinking bundles and improving performance across products. Drew’s work spans TypeScript, Vue, Node, Flutter, PHP/Laravel, and API design, with a strong emphasis on testing, coding standards, and long-lived maintainable systems. Notably, he co-designed the high-performance, framework-free chessboard used on Chess.com that has been played billions of times, demonstrating his obsession with performant front-end engineering. He also founded HikerFeed and is an avid long-distance thru-hiker, blending product leadership with practical mobile and backend engineering. Based in Fairplay, Colorado, he combines deep system-design expertise with a pragmatic focus on measurable impact and developer experience.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Old Colony R.V.T.H.S.
Computer Science and Mathematics, Computer Science and Mathematics at Bridgewater State University
Computer Science, Computer Science at Oregon State University-Cascades
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Colorado Colorado Springs
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